linux.git/net, branch v2.6.27

tcp: Fix tcp_hybla zero congestion window growth with small rho and large cwnd.

2008-10-07T22:58:17+00:00

Because of rounding, in certain conditions, i.e. when in congestion
avoidance state rho is smaller than 1/128 of the current cwnd, TCP
Hybla congestion control starves and the cwnd is kept constant
forever.

This patch forces an increment by one segment after #send_cwnd calls
without increments(newreno behavior).

Signed-off-by: Daniele Lacamera 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Fix netdev_run_todo dead-lock

2008-10-07T22:50:03+00:00

Benjamin Thery tracked down a bug that explains many instances
of the error

unregister_netdevice: waiting for %s to become free. Usage count = %d

It turns out that netdev_run_todo can dead-lock with itself if
a second instance of it is run in a thread that will then free
a reference to the device waited on by the first instance.

The problem is really quite silly.  We were trying to create
parallelism where none was required.  As netdev_run_todo always
follows a RTNL section, and that todo tasks can only be added
with the RTNL held, by definition you should only need to wait
for the very ones that you've added and be done with it.

There is no need for a second mutex or spinlock.

This is exactly what the following patch does.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

tcp: Fix possible double-ack w/ user dma

2008-10-07T22:31:19+00:00

From: Ali Saidi 

When TCP receive copy offload is enabled it's possible that
tcp_rcv_established() will cause two acks to be sent for a single
packet. In the case that a tcp_dma_early_copy() is successful,
copied_early is set to true which causes tcp_cleanup_rbuf() to be
called early which can send an ack. Further along in
tcp_rcv_established(), __tcp_ack_snd_check() is called and will
schedule a delayed ACK. If no packets are processed before the delayed
ack timer expires the packet will be acked twice.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: only invoke dev->change_rx_flags when device is UP

2008-10-07T22:26:48+00:00

Jesper Dangaard Brouer  reported a bug when setting a VLAN
device down that is in promiscous mode:

When the VLAN device is set down, the promiscous count on the real
device is decremented by one by vlan_dev_stop(). When removing the
promiscous flag from the VLAN device afterwards, the promiscous
count on the real device is decremented a second time by the
vlan_change_rx_flags() callback.

The root cause for this is that the ->change_rx_flags() callback is
invoked while the device is down. The synchronization is meant to mirror
the behaviour of the ->set_rx_mode callbacks, meaning the ->open function
is responsible for doing a full sync on open, the ->close() function is
responsible for doing full cleanup on ->stop() and ->change_rx_flags()
is meant to do incremental changes while the device is UP.

Only invoke ->change_rx_flags() while the device is UP to provide the
intended behaviour.

Tested-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

netrom: Fix sock_orphan() use in nr_release

2008-10-06T19:54:57+00:00

While debugging another bug it was found that NetRom socks
are sometimes seen unorphaned in sk_free(). This patch moves
sock_orphan() in nr_release() to the beginning (like in ax25,
or rose).

Reported-and-tested-by: Bernard Pidoux f6bvp 
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ax25: Quick fix for making sure unaccepted sockets get destroyed.

2008-10-06T19:53:50+00:00

Since we reverted 30902dc3cb0ea1cfc7ac2b17bcf478ff98420d74 ("ax25: Fix
std timer socket destroy handling.") we have to put some kind of fix
in to cure the issue whereby unaccepted connections do not get destroyed.

The approach used here is from Tihomir Heidelberg - 9a4gl

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Revert "ax25: Fix std timer socket destroy handling."

2008-10-06T19:48:29+00:00

This reverts commit 30902dc3cb0ea1cfc7ac2b17bcf478ff98420d74.

It causes all kinds of problems, based upon a report by
Bernard (f6bvp) and analysis by Jarek Poplawski.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

af_key: Free dumping state on socket close

2008-10-01T12:17:54+00:00

Fix a xfrm_{state,policy}_walk leak if pfkey socket is closed while
dumping is on-going.

Signed-off-by: Timo Teras 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

XFRM,IPv6: initialize ip6_dst_blackhole_ops.kmem_cachep

2008-10-01T09:37:56+00:00

ip6_dst_blackhole_ops.kmem_cachep is not expected to be NULL (i.e. to
be initialized) when dst_alloc() is called from ip6_dst_blackhole().
Otherwise, it results in the following (xfrm_larval_drop is now set to
1 by default):

[   78.697642] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x0000004c
[   78.703449] Faulting instruction address: 0xc0097f54
[   78.786896] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[   78.792791] PowerMac
[   78.798383] Modules linked in: btusb usbhid bluetooth b43 mac80211 cfg80211 ehci_hcd ohci_hcd sungem sungem_phy usbcore ssb
[   78.804263] NIP: c0097f54 LR: c0334a28 CTR: c002d430
[   78.809997] REGS: eef19ad0 TRAP: 0300   Not tainted  (2.6.27-rc5)
[   78.815743] MSR: 00001032   CR: 22242482  XER: 20000000
[   78.821550] DAR: 0000004c, DSISR: 40000000
[   78.827278] TASK = eef0df40[3035] 'mip6d' THREAD: eef18000
[   78.827408] GPR00: 00001032 eef19b80 eef0df40 00000000 00008020 eef19c30 00000001 00000000
[   78.833249] GPR08: eee5101c c05a5c10 ef9ad500 00000000 24242422 1005787c 00000000 1004f960
[   78.839151] GPR16: 00000000 10024e90 10050040 48030018 0fe44150 00000000 00000000 eef19c30
[   78.845046] GPR24: eef19e44 00000000 eef19bf8 efb37c14 eef19bf8 00008020 00009032 c0596064
[   78.856671] NIP [c0097f54] kmem_cache_alloc+0x20/0x94
[   78.862581] LR [c0334a28] dst_alloc+0x40/0xc4
[   78.868451] Call Trace:
[   78.874252] [eef19b80] [c03c1810] ip6_dst_lookup_tail+0x1c8/0x1dc (unreliable)
[   78.880222] [eef19ba0] [c0334a28] dst_alloc+0x40/0xc4
[   78.886164] [eef19bb0] [c03cd698] ip6_dst_blackhole+0x28/0x1cc
[   78.892090] [eef19be0] [c03d9be8] rawv6_sendmsg+0x75c/0xc88
[   78.897999] [eef19cb0] [c038bca4] inet_sendmsg+0x4c/0x78
[   78.903907] [eef19cd0] [c03207c8] sock_sendmsg+0xac/0xe4
[   78.909734] [eef19db0] [c03209e4] sys_sendmsg+0x1e4/0x2a0
[   78.915540] [eef19f00] [c03220a8] sys_socketcall+0xfc/0x210
[   78.921406] [eef19f40] [c0014b3c] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38
[   78.927295] --- Exception: c01 at 0xfe2d730
[   78.927297]     LR = 0xfe2d71c
[   78.939019] Instruction dump:
[   78.944835] 91640018 9144001c 900a0000 4bffff44 9421ffe0 7c0802a6 bf810010 7c9d2378
[   78.950694] 90010024 7fc000a6 57c0045e 7c000124 <83e3004c> 8383005c 2f9f0000 419e0050
[   78.956464] ---[ end trace 05fa1ed7972487a1 ]---

As commented by Benjamin Thery, the bug was introduced by
f2fc6a54585a1be6669613a31fbaba2ecbadcd36, while adding network
namespaces support to ipv6 routes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaud Ebalard 
Acked-by: Benjamin Thery 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv6: NULL pointer dereferrence in tcp_v6_send_ack

2008-10-01T09:13:16+00:00

The following actions are possible:
tcp_v6_rcv
  skb->dev = NULL;
  tcp_v6_do_rcv
    tcp_v6_hnd_req
      tcp_check_req
        req->rsk_ops->send_ack == tcp_v6_send_ack

So, skb->dev can be NULL in tcp_v6_send_ack. We must obtain namespace
from dst entry.

Thanks to Vitaliy Gusev  for initial problem finding
in IPv4 code.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller